They’re not content to just look like a plain green leaf. “That would be too easy,” says entomologist and wildlife photographer Piotr Naskrecki. “No, their bodies are perfect replicas of leaves that have been chewed up, torn, rotten, dried up, partially decayed, or covered by fungi. Some even have fake holes in their wings (fake, because the holes are in fact thin, translucent parts of the wing membrane.)”

…This isn’t, by the way, a standard act of mime. You won’t find thousands of katydids with the exact same bite-on-the-edge look. “No two individuals are alike,” says Piotr Naskrecki. In fact, “you can find individuals whose appearance is so dramatically different that one would feel justified to place them in different species.” But they’re not. These are, you should excuse the expression, artists: individuals pretending, in their very different ways, to be a leaf.

Because it’s the internet, someone put one on a turntable so that we could get a good 360 degree look at it:

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